At The Tipping Point

Why the next five years of digital workplace might look nothing like the last five.

The digital workplace has spent the last 15 years evolving around a familiar model.

But that model is under pressure.

Rising hardware costs. An AI-augmented workforce. Changing employee expectations. Increasing demands for flexibility. And technology that is evolving faster than most organisations can build an investment plan around.

The question is no longer simply how to optimise the digital workplace we have.

It is whether we should be designing a fundamentally different one. 

Join senior IT and workplace leaders for a private, virtual conversation exploring whether the next five years represent genuine structural change - or simply another cycle of pressure to deliver the same workplace model more efficiently. 

Four Roundtable Questions:

1. What has genuinely changed? The digital workplace looks very different on the surface. But how much has actually changed underneath? We'll look at desktop and application delivery today versus five years ago - separating genuine technological shifts from solutions that have simply become more expensive or complex to operate.

The question: If we stripped away the headlines, what is fundamentally different about the digital workplace today?

2. What's really creating the pressure to change? Organisations are being told they need to transform. But where is that pressure actually coming from. We'll explore the forces pushing workplace strategies forward:

• The emergence of AI-augmented employees
• Rising infrastructure and hardware costs
• Changing employee expectations
• Customer and business demands
• Security and operational pressures
• The pace of technology change itself

The question: Which pressures are genuinely changing your roadmap - and which are simply creating noise?

3. How do you invest when the plan keeps moving? Traditional five-year technology planning assumes we can reasonably predict what the future will look like. That assumption is becoming increasingly difficult to defend. We'll discuss how senior IT leaders are building investment cases when the technology landscape, cost base and workforce model could look materially different in 12 months. 

The question: How do you build and defend a multi-year business case when you can't confidently predict the next 12 months?

4. What if you started again from scratch? Imagine it is five years from now. You have no existing architecture. No legacy contracts. No historical decisions to defend. You can design the digital workplace from scratch. What would you build? This thought experiment will challenge whether today's architecture reflects deliberate strategic choices - or simply the accumulated weight of decisions made years ago. 

The question: If you were starting again today, would you build what your currently have?

A Different Kind of Workplace Conversation

There will be no lengthy presentations or predetermined conclusions. 

Instead, the virtual roundtable is designed to create space for senior leaders to openly discuss:

What's changed. What's creating pressure. What's worth investing in. And what should be left behind.

You'll hear how peers are approaching the same questions, challenge your own assumptions and pressure-test your thinking against leaders operating in similarly uncertain conditions. 

Join the Conversation.

Is your digital workplace ready for the next five years?

Join a select group of senior IT and workplace leaders for a candid discussion about what's genuinely changing, where the pressure is coming from, and what you would build if you were starting from scratch.

Register your interest below.